MALICIOUS
158
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059.001 PowerShell
The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution when the document is opened with a vulnerable version of the reader. The critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this malicious intent. No specific malware family could be identified.
Heuristics 5
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
embedded_file_obj0011.bin399b3bcf56eee808a66153b5a55a13648b80529be6af5d858ba839b85a80ea92 |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x45D | 33240 bytes |
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